Part 4: 1

I'd secretly dated Antonio Kaufman, my brother's best friend, for seven years.

I always believed a proposal was inevitable.

Then I discovered he was waiting for his first love to return.

I was a placeholder, a convenient means to an end.

***

I followed Antonio to a bar, eavesdropping on his conversation with friends.

"Antonio, now that your true love is back, what about Grace?" one asked.

Antonio's silence hung heavy in the air.

Another man snickered, "Freddy warned us off his sis... He wouldn't let anyone hurt her."

It was common knowledge.

"Alicia dumped me. I was just trying

said, his voice so cold it felt

Alicia

party, Antonio showered me

out in tears, he shoved me aside,

stumbled into a table, scalding myself and ruining my

home, humiliated and hurting, I marched into

been forbidden to enter in seven

his desk, was a photo of

marriage, I've reconsidered. I'm in!" "Grace,

tone. "Fine. I've just been thinking. It's

you be back? You should meet

sooner I agree, the sooner the company's problems are

from now," I

with Antonio? I heard his first love is back. Invite him to the

tone was serious,

humor.

then: he knew about Alicia. That explained Antonio's insistence on keeping our

"We are not

unlock, I quickly said

call.

meet Antonio's smiling

I flatly replied. He raised an eyebrow and pulled me

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